Not a coder? No problem. Use our Matchmaking Tool to find team members who can help bring your ideas to life.

Get all the details at apps4to.ca

And there’s more!

See the City of Toronto challenges your app can solve, meet potential teammates and get inspired to create a smarter city! Plus, sharpen your ideas at the Bluemix and ThinkData Works Workshops and Coding Days. (See complete schedule.)

This year on April 11-12, more than 10,000 developers are expected to participate across 138 cities and online through the virtual challenge.

IBM is offering Bluemix as a cloud development platform for the NASA Virtual Space App Challenge to help developers rapidly build applications for the challenge.

In addition to the prizes from NASA, IBM will award one prize per hackathon location for the most innovative use of IBM Bluemix. Selected winners will receive $12K of Cloud credit including high-level technical support.

Have you heard about IBM Verse? It is a very exciting product that will definately increase your productivity!!

IBM Verse is a collaboration tool guided by powerful analytics to help you prioritize the people and projects you need to focus on. There’s a new way to work and it’s made with IBM. Learn more at http://www.ibm.com/verse

Something is happening to the world economy. Our traditional understanding of the Information Economy is giving way to a new variation that will have an enormous impact on jobs, wealth, and entire industries. This new economy has its roots in data, but of equal importance are two other components: Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Mobile Apps. There is also a fourth factor working as an accelerator on each of the three others: the Internet of Things.

You are invited to SportsHack, on November 14-16, 2014, the first Wearable Technology Hackathon in Toronto where the main theme is Sports. Get inspired in this 3-day event by working with fellow hackers at the former home of hockey!

From one of the most iconic buildings in Toronto, the former Maple Leaf Gardens; IBM, Ryerson University, and We Are Wearables Toronto (WWTO) have joined forces to bring you SportsHack. This event will allow participants to work with the coolest wearable, Cloud and Analytics technologies applied in the world of sports.

Hack Sports with the Myo ( Thalmic Labs ), the Kiwi ( Kiwi Wearables ), and the Muse ( InteraXon ); three devices from local companies in Ontario driving innovation in the wearable space; or bring your own wearable and hack sports!

You will be able to rapidly develop your apps on the Cloud using IBM Bluemix ( bluemix ) Platform As a Service (PAAS), and integrate your solution with Big Data, Analytics, Mobile, and many more services available with this platform.

In March 2014 at SXSW Sandy Carter, IBM General Manager for Ecosystem Development caught up with a number of the young rockstars from the Austin design studio, and asked them to explain the process for the design of IBM Bluemix.

In March 2014 at SXSW Sandy Carter, IBM General Manager for Ecosystem Development caught up with a number of the young rockstars from the Austin design studio, and asked them to explain the process for the design of IBM Bluemix.

Bluemix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture, leveraging Cloud Foundry to enable developers to rapidly build, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, while tapping a growing ecosystem of available services and runtime frameworks. IBM will provide services and runtimes into the ecosystem based on our extensive software portfolio.

In practical terms, this means that cloud applications built on Bluemix will:

Bluemix Advantage: Developers and business leadersalike will benefit from hearing how Bluemix and SoftLayer offer a low-risk, secure, cost sensitive environment - using new capabilities and technologies geared towards the cloud. Take advantage of the opportunity to learn how to differentiate and leap-frog your competition with IBM Bluemix and SoftLayer.

Bluemix Hands-On Workshops: Take the opportunity to build and deploy applications and services like DevOps and Data in a matter of hours on Bluemix (built on SoftLayer)!

As part of this workshop you will be able to:

Learn the fundamentals of building and deploying your application in the Cloud (Bluemix DevOps Services)

Work with Bluemix experts on how to use the product and migrate your application

Inspiration:
Theresa Laurico, Founder/CVO, SociaLIGHT - www.socialightconference.com
2012 Lean Startup Machine Winner, 2012 Nominee for Startup of the Year, Business
Excellence, Toronto Board of Trade
National Leadership Recipient, Lieutenant Governor Ontario
Featured in Huffington Post, PROFIT, Forbes, Financial Post, You Inc.
Keynote:
Evan Borysko, Business Unit Executive, Mobility Practice Avnet
Evan has built his career in the professional services for the last 15 years and has experience in in all aspects of the consultative space.
Keynote:
Ethan Song, Co-Founder and Creative Director, Frank and Oak - www.frankandoak.com
Collaborated on an array of Creative and entrepreneurial endeavors.

IBM Chairman and CEO reveals how the company prepares for future markets at the 2013 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C.

Ginni Rometty's advice to companies: Don't define your business by a product. In a world of consistent and constant change, it's the most dangerous thing for a company to do. "You'll miss [technology] shifts. You'll miss dangerous ones like business models," said Rometty.